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Dan Toomey
Dan Toomey
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Dan Toomey

Dan Toomey has been developing application software for over 20 years. He has worked in a variety of industries and companies, in roles from sole contributor to VP/CTO-level. For the last few years, he has been contracting for companies in the eastern Massachusetts area. Dan has been contracting under Dan Toomey Software Corp. Dan has also written R for Data Science, Jupyter for Data Sciences, and the Jupyter Cookbook, all with Packt.
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Draw a histogram of social data


There are a wide variety of social sites that produce datasets. In this example, we will gather one of the datasets and produce a histogram from the data. The specific dataset is the voting behavior on WIKI from https://snap.stanford.edu/data/wiki-Vote.html. Each data item shows user number N voted for user number X. So, we produce some statistics in a histogram to analyze voting behavior by:

  • Gathering all of the voting that took place
  • For each vote:
    • Increment a counter that says who voted
    • Increment a counter that says who was voted for
    • Massage the data so we can display it in two histograms

The coding is as follows:

%matplotlib inline
# import all packages being used
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib

# load voting data drawn from https://snap.stanford.edu/data/wiki-Vote.html
df = pd.read_table('wiki-Vote.txt', sep=r"\s+", index_col=0)

# produce standard summary info to validate
print(df.head())
print(df.describe...
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Published in: Oct 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785880070

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Dan Toomey

Dan Toomey has been developing application software for over 20 years. He has worked in a variety of industries and companies, in roles from sole contributor to VP/CTO-level. For the last few years, he has been contracting for companies in the eastern Massachusetts area. Dan has been contracting under Dan Toomey Software Corp. Dan has also written R for Data Science, Jupyter for Data Sciences, and the Jupyter Cookbook, all with Packt.
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